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SCA: security update for github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/v3 (GHSA-h36c-m3rf-34h9)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415421

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on
 Kubernetes. When using `--auth-mode=client`, Archived Workflows can be retrieved with a fake or spoofed
 token via the GET Workflow endpoint: `/api/v1/workflows/{namespace}/{name}` or when using `--auth-
 mode=sso`, all Archived Workflows can be retrieved with a valid token via the GET Workflow endpoint:
 `/api/v1/workflows/{namespace}/{name}`. No authentication is performed by the Server itself on `client`
 tokens. Authentication & authorization is instead delegated to the k8s API server. However, the Workflow
 Archive does not interact with k8s, and so any token that looks valid will be considered authenticated,
 even if it is not a k8s token or even if the token has no RBAC for Argo. To handle the lack of pass-
 through k8s authN/authZ, the Workflow Archive specifically does the equivalent of a `kubectl auth can-i`
 check for respective methods. In 3.5.7 and 3.5.8, the auth check was accidentally removed on the GET
 Workflow endpoint's fallback to archived workflows on these lines, allowing archived workflows to be
 retrieved with a fake token. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.2 and 3.5.13. (CVE-2024-53862)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h36c-m3rf-34h9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415421

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53862

cwe: CWE-200